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Not Too Sweet

Certified thought daughters Miranda Park and Scarlette Do bring their training in feminist advocacy and humanities research to unpack everyday Asian Australian experiences.

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00:52:07

Cultural appropriation with Lauren Nilsson-Siu

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2025/11/27

Beauty practices often involve cultural appropriation: the ‘Scandinavian’ scarf, box braids, the 1990s Asian chic qipao. But what does ‘cultural appropriation’ mean and why is it so difficult to talk about? Helping us flesh out this topic is Dr Lauren Nilsson-Siu, an Anglo-Indian Australian researcher who lives and works on Gadigal and Wangal Land. Drawing from her expertise on gender and cultural studies, as well as critical race and ethnic studies, Lauren leads Miranda and Scarlette through why we

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00:53:03

Beauty: an introduction

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2025/11/14

Not Too Sweet returns for a new season, this time with a focus on ‘Beauty.’ Join co-hosts Scarlette Do and Miranda Park as they unpack their experiences growing up watching Disney movies, dealing with Australian beauty standards, and the lessons they learned about surveillance, morality, class, and race. Scarlette and Miranda think about whether K-Beauty offers a path towards diverse beauty standards and the role of neoliberal postfeminism in all of this. Support the podcast by rating and reviewing

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00:50:44

Celebration

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2025/04/25

In this final episode of the season, we explore the concept of ‘celebration’ and the significance of celebration in our every-day lives. We unpack the various rituals associated with certain cultural celebrations and personal milestones, our feelings about ATAR reveal videos, the politics of gift-giving and which Australian public holidays we’d like to fuck, marry or kill. Scarlette discusses the importance of remittance to Vietnamese transnational families and Miranda explores the significance of a

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00:24:08

Bonus Episode with Jessie Liu

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2025/04/18

Our final bonus episode this season delves into Jessie Liu’s fascinating PhD research in the daigou trade and her postdoctoral fellowship with the Australian Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusion at Work. Where the PhD project led Jessie to important questions about her disciplines and the questions of race and labour in Australia, her postdoc investigates how rostering impacts the wellbeing of midwives. Jessie speaks to the hybridity, expansiveness, and inclusivity of the ‘Asian-Australian’

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00:47:56

Disavowal

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2025/04/11

In this episode, the co-hosts put on their smarty-pants to unpack how the term ‘disavowal’ can illuminate Asian Australians’ role in settler colonialism. Jessie Liu helps us flesh out this psychic structure–an active suppression or forgetting–through ideas of depoliticisation, class, and localisation. The hosts return to the topic of names and how, although English names help us access certain privileges, this is also an act of symbolic death and haunting. Jessie explores how Asians’ disavowal of

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00:15:16

Bonus Episode with Varsha Yajman

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2025/04/04

In this bonus episode, we chat with Varsha about how being an Indian Australian has shaped her advocacy. She reflects on the need to direct our energy towards important battles, the joy of community, and how Asian Australians can learn from First Nations groups in our fight for climate justice. Varsha stresses the importance of listening to those impacted by climate change and the freedom of rising above cultural expectations.Follow us on Instagram @nottoosweetpodcast and Varsha @varshayajman

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00:45:08

Diversity

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2025/03/28

As the Trump administration continues its attacks on DEI, it's more important now than ever to think critically about what these terms mean. Join the co-hosts and special guest Varsha Yajman as they unpack the good, the bad, and the ugly of ‘diversity’. We uncover how while diverse representation matters, it can be co-opted by institutions like school, university, and corporations. Varsha draws on her experience as a climate change and body image youth advocate of Indian heritage to explore

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00:20:50

Bonus Episode with Caroline Wang

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2025/03/21

In this special bonus episode, Caroline shares more about her exciting PhD project, which investigates the rise of diasporic Asian cinema from the 2010s onwards and their portrayals of Asian femininity under the influence of neoliberal feminism and multiculturalism. Caroline discusses the huge cultural and personal impact ofCrazy Rich Asians, a movie that sparked her interest in what is now her doctoral research. We talk about the accomplishments Caroline is most proud of, including her beloved cat,

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00:59:02

Stereotypes

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2025/03/14

We are joined by special guest, Caroline Wang, as we examine stereotypes of Asian people in film, television and musical theatre. Caroline brings her expertise as a Film Studies scholar to help us unpack the various and often problematic stereotypes of Asian women in musicals like Miss Saigon and films like Charlie’s Angels, Set It Up, Joy Ride and Crazy Rich Asians. We discuss the complexities of the chaste and self-sacrificing Lotus Blossom, the hypersexualised and fierce Dragon Lady, and the

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00:49:22

Authenticity

Not Too Sweet ·

2025/02/28

In this episode we discuss the concept of ‘authenticity’, covering everything from our visceral reactions to being asked that annoying ‘where are you from?’ question, to our love-hate relationship with Asian fusion cuisine. Miranda talks about her fears of being seen as a ‘fake Korean’ and Scarlette explores how language, accents and appearance have shaped other’s perceptions of her ‘authenticity’ as a Vietnamese-Australian.We ask: is our so-called ‘authenticity’ (or lack thereof) something that is

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00:36:31

Liminality

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2025/02/14

Thanks for tuning into our first full episode of Not Too Sweet! This week we talk about ‘liminality’ and what it means to inhabit liminal spaces as Asian Australians. We share experiences of border crossing, learning to fit into white educational and social settings, navigating cultural differences and language barriers with our families, and encounters with old Vietnamese men playing chess on the sidewalk. We explore liminality as a wonderfully expansive concept that encompasses everything from

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00:17:21

Introduction

Not Too Sweet ·

2025/01/31

Introducing Not Too Sweet, a podcast from two friends, feminists, and grad students. Join Miranda and Scarlette (and their very fabulous guests) as the co-hosts talk about everything related to Asian Australian experiences, from the banal strawberry matcha to the not-so-mundane issue of settler colonialism, and ideas like 'neoliberalism' and 'disavowal'. Follow Not Too Sweet on Instagram.

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